Bowie v. Sorrell’s Empirical Analysis
209 F.2d 49 · 1953
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 3 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently July 2015 · most notably Hoffman v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (1988), Arnold IV v. Eastern Air Lines Inc (1982)
21 federal appellate · 3 district · 4 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Enelow v. New York Life Insurance · Callen v. Pennsylvania Railroad · Jacob v. City of New York · American Mills Co. v. American Surety Co. · Insurance Company v. Bailey
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We think that our problem must be solved by federal law, not by the law of the State of Virginia, though we believe that the solution to the problem before us would be the same, whether the State law or the federal law be applied.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.